NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN COLEOPTERA, WITH 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A., Cork. Mem. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 



Part V. 



CARABID.E. 



SiLPHOMORPHA AMABILIS, Cast. 



Among the insects taken by Dr. Bovill in the N. Territory of S. 

 Australia is a specimen that seems to appertain to this species, 

 though it is difficult to be quite sure as Count Castelnau's descrip- 

 tion deals only with colour and markings. In respect of these 

 the example before me shows the following discrepancies, — the 

 prothorax instead of being "yellow with a large black spot 

 occupying its centre " is black with the lateral margins broadly 

 yellow and the front and hindmargins narrowly pitchy-red ; the 

 base of the elytra instead of having " a black spot near the centre" 

 is narrowly black on its inner half, with the black colour a little 

 dilated at its outer extremity. The elytra are widely and feebly 

 (but quite regularly and distinctly) costate, a wavy and very fine 

 scratch-like stria running between each two costse. The species 

 may be readily recognized by the remarkable resemblance of the 

 black|^markings (excluding the narrow black edging of the apex), 

 when viewed with the head towards the observer, to the figure of 

 a tree, — the black front portion of the suture representing the 

 trunk, and the mark that Castelnau calls a " black fascia" repre- 

 senting the branches and foliage. 



SCOLYPTUS OBSCURIPES, Sp.nOV. 



Minus elongatus ; minus nitidus ; niger, antennis palpisque 

 I'ufescentibus, tarsis ruf o-piceis ; menti dente lato triangulari lobis 



